Most US history textbooks in K-12 schools prioritize superficial facts over substantive ideas. They pepper readers with all kids of informational tidbits, such as names, places, dates, and circumstances. Students are told to memorize these items and regurgitate them for a test—in the process, glossing over the meaty ideas intertwined with these historical events.
But those ideas are why we should learn history in the first place. As the famous quote goes, “Those who don’t learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” If we don’t see the mistakes made by those who have gone before, we’ll fall into similar traps today.
That’s why the Tuttle Twins team launched the America’s History series—a set of history books designed to teach the ideas of the past that relate to our modern era. And now, Volume 2 has been published! This new book covers the formative years of the Revolutionary War as well as the developments of the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution.
Our history books don’t focus on information overload in textbook format. Instead, they are story books; each chapter is part of a broader story where the Tuttle twins experience the lessons of the past, helping the reader see how they relate to our lives today.
In addition to the book we have created a 200+ page curriculum full of activities and lessons to build upon the ideas in the stories children read. Combined with our audiobook and instructional videos, this whole package becomes an off-the-shelf solution for homeschool curriculum as well as classroom instruction in traditional schools.